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Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 4 The prevalence of the sarcopenia risk and functional disability in relation to the fall risk assessed by FRAS score

From: Sarcopenia in Egypt: epidemiology of sarcopenia risk among older adults presenting with fragility fractures—an initiative by the Egyptian Academy of Bone Health

 

Falls score

p value

No risk

High risk

Sarcopenia score category

  < 4 No risk

35 (62.5)

32 (29.1)

0.003*

  =  > 4 High risk

21 (37.5)

78 (70.9)

Functional disability

  < 0.5 No risk

64 (66.7)

51 (37.2)

0.013*

  =  > 2 High risk

32 (33.3)

86 (62.8)

  1. *p<0.05
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